Attachment 1

Resolution for the 2013 Revision to the Sacramento Regional 8-Hour Ozone Attainment 

and Reasonable Further Progress Plan (Plan)

September 26, 2013


2013 Revision to the Sacramento Regional 8-hour Ozone Attainment

and Reasonable Further Progress Plan

September 26, 2013

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WHEREAS the USEPA has published new guidance to implement the federal Clean Air 

Act (CAA) requirement to offset the growth in emissions due to growth in vehicle miles travelled

(VMT offset) (Section 182(d)(1)(A); and

WHEREAS the 2011 Sacramento Regional 8-Hour Ozone Attainment and Reasonable 

Further Progress Plan must be updated to reflect the approved updated emission inventory and 

VMT offset requirements; and

WHEREAS the 2013 Sacramento Regional 8-Hour Ozone Attainment and Reasonable 

Further Progress Plan (Plan) includes a VMT offset demonstration pursuant to new USEPA 

guidance implementing CAA Section 182(d)(1)(A), which requires “Severe” nonattainment areas to 

offset the growth in emissions due to growth in VMT; and

WHEREAS the Plan revised the reasonable further progress demonstration (RFP) and 

attainment demonstration to reflect the updated emissions inventory; and

WHEREAS Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 93 requires that 

transportation emission budgets for certain criteria pollutants be specified in the SIP; and

WHEREAS 40 CFR 93.118(e)(4) requires a demonstration that transportation emission 

budgets are consistent with the emissions inventory and applicable requirements for reasonable 

further progress or attainment; and

WHEREAS the Plan updates the on-road motor vehicle emission budgets (Budgets), 

including a safety margin to accommodate uncertainties in population and employment growth, 

which are used for transportation conformity purposes and are based on the revised emissions 

inventory; and

WHEREAS the updated transportation emission budgets will replace the previous 

transportation budgets that the USEPA found adequate on August 12, 2009; and

WHEREAS the Plan revised the airport emission budgets used for general conformity 

based on the revised emissions inventory; and

WHEREAS the Clean Air Act requires a demonstration that the region makes progress 

towards meeting the NAAQS by meeting minimum emission reduction targets at specific intervals, 

and the Plan revisions include an updated RFP demonstration for 2014, 2017, and 2018 based on 

the revised emissions inventory and show that the Sacramento region achieves the required 3% 

per year reduction; and

WHEREAS the Clean Air Act requires a demonstration that the region will meet the 

NAAQS as expeditiously as practicable and the Plan revisions include an updated demonstration 

based on the revised emissions inventory that attainment of the 1997 ozone NAAQS will be 

achieved by the 2018 deadline even without additional control measures; and 

WHEREAS the revised Plan reflects more recent projections of emission reductions and 

available funding, and the emissions reductions and funding of the Mobile Source Incentive 

Program have been updated; and
2013 Revision to the Sacramento Regional 8-hour Ozone Attainment

and Reasonable Further Progress Plan

September 26, 2013

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WHEREAS Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District (SMAQMD)

Automotive Refinishing Rule and Feather River Air Quality Management District (FRAQMD)

Degreasing/Solvent Cleaning Rule have been adopted before the original schedule, the revised 

Plan updated their adoption and implementation dates; and

WHEREAS the adoption year for the Urban Forest Development Program (SMAQMD-1) 

has been rescheduled from 2012 to 2013; and 

WHEREAS SMAQMD Rules 454 and 466 Degreasing/Solvent Cleaning Rule and Large 

Water Heaters and Rule 414 Small Boiler Rule have been adopted and their emission reductions 

are reflected in the updated emissions inventory, and they are removed from the list of rule 

commitments; and

WHEREAS El Dorado County Air Quality Management District (EDCAQMD) has no

emission sources under their Degreasing/Solvent Cleaning Rule and Miscellaneous Metal Parts 

and Products Rules and submitted two Negative Declarations to EPA in December 2012 and these 

rules are removed from the list of rule commitments; and

WHEREAS the Clean Air Act requires that the Plan provide for the implementation of all 

reasonably available control measures (RACM) as expeditiously as practicable; the Plan revisions 

do not change the 2013 Plan conclusion that the estimated emission reductions from the potential 

control measures remain less than the revised threshold for advancing attainment; and

WHEREAS a notice announcing the May 23, 2013 public hearing on the 2013 Plan revision

was published in all five air districts in the Sacramento Nonattainment Area April 20-22, 2013 to 

invite public comment as shown in Attachment 3; and

WHEREAS the Board of Directors of the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management 

District held a public hearing on behalf of all five air districts in the SNA, as required by Clean Air 

Act Section 110, on the 2013 Plan revision at its May 23, 2013 meeting; and

WHEREAS at the May 23, 2013 hearing the Board of Directors of the Sacramento 

Metropolitan Air Quality Management District continued the public hearing to July 25, 2013 and 

continued the July 25 public hearing to August 22, 2013 and continued the August 22 public 

hearing to September 26, 2013; and

WHEREAS this action is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA

pursuant to California Code of Regulations Title 14, Division 6, Chapter 3, §15061(b)(3) (no 

possibility of a significant adverse effect on the environment) and §15308 (actions taken by 

regulatory agencies to assure the maintenance, restoration, enhancement, or protection of the 

environment); and

WHEREAS staff of the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District, at 777 

12th Street, Sacramento, California 95814, maintains the record of the proceedings upon which this 

decision is based.